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A view of the 11th century Church of St. Nicholas, in Demre, near Antalya, southern Turkey, Friday, Oct. 6, 2017

Archaeologists May Have Discovered St. Nick’s Bones in Turkey

St. Nicholas was born and served as a bishop of what is now the Turkish Mediterranean town of Demre, near Antalya, in the 4th century

In this undated image taken in 2000, provided by the Palestinian Department of Antiquities, an aerial view of the excavations at Tel Es-Sakan, shows houses dating to 2600-2300 B.C., left, and fortifications from the late fourth millennium B.C, south of Gaza City. Palestinian and French archaeologists began excavating Gazaג€™s earliest archaeological site nearly 20 years ago; unearthing what they believe is a rare 4,500-year-old Bronze Age settlement. But over protests that grew recently, Gazaג€™s Hamas rulers have systematically destroyed the work since seizing power a decade ago, to make way for construction projects, and later military bases. (Pierre de Miroschedji/Palestinian Department of Antiquities, via AP)

An Ancient Canaanite Treasure in Gaza Was Leveled to the Ground by Hamas

Despite protests, the last remnants of an excavation of a 4,500-year-old Bronze Age settlement was flattened by Hamas to allow housing developments

The General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums in Syria present the statue of the Lion of Al-Lat, which dates back to the first century AD, to the public after its restoration at the National Museum in Damascus on October 1, 2017.
The statue, which was destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in July 2015 after they captured the ancient city of Palmyra, was restored by the Polish restorer Bartoz Bartopar under the funding of the Office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO in Beirut.

Ancient Statue Damaged by ISIS Now on Display in Damascus

A restored 2,000-year-old Lion of Al-Lat statue can again stand as a symbol of the ancient Roman city of Palmyra

Startling new evidence shows that the peoples of Papua New Guinea remained very genetically diverse over tens of thousands of years.

Startling Genetic Diversity Indicates That Ancient Papuans Didn't Even Mix With Each Other

The ancestors of the Papuan New Guinean peoples arrived 50,000+ years ago, scattered into highland and lowland areas, and evidently kept to themselves since then, going by genetic and linguistic evidence

The digital reconstruction of the panel of Temple spoils, Arch of Titus

Archaeologists Reconstruct How the Arch of Titus Looked – in Full Color

When built, the Arch was not a majestic white stone testimony to Rome crushing the Jews, it was a brightly colored monument aggrandizing Vespasian and his dynasty.

Danny Rosenberg holding the 7,200-year-old model silo. He is wearing a dark blue T-shirt against which the reconsturcted pottery vessel stands out, as do the reddish-colored balls decorating its top.

Oldest Evidence of Food Storage Ritual: 7,200-year-old Model of Silo Found in Israel

Why else would the ancient occupants of Tel Tsaf have created an intricate, nonfunctional pottery miniature of their grain storage facility, archaeologists ask

A picture taken on September 9, 2017 shows Egyptian labourers and archaeologists unearthing mummies at a newly-uncovered ancient tomb for a goldsmith dedicated to the ancient Egyptian god Amun, in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis on the west bank of the ancient city of Luxor, which boasts ancient Egyptian temples and burial grounds.

3,000-year-old Tomb Containing Mummies Discovered in Egypt

Archaeologists find tomb dated back to Egypt’s 18th dynasty New Kingdom era

Purple spots damaging the scroll of ex-soldier Laurentius Loricatus the Blessed, dating to 1244 C.E. Photo shows how the calligraphic writing, presumably in Latin, disappears as the mysterious spots "ate" the parchment.

The Color Purple: Mystery of What Has Been Killing Ancient Parchments Solved

Hoping to help save ancient documents, including at the Vatican, scientists discover what has been eating parchments going back millennia.

Seals adorned with Biblical names were found by archaeologists at the City of David Excavation in Jerusalem.

Israelite Refugees Found High Office in Kingdom of Judah, Seals Found in Jerusalem Show

Archaeologists believe illustrative impressions were used to seal deals during the First Temple period, lending credence to the theory that Jerusalem was administrative capital of Judean kingdom

Illustration of the Ark of the Covenant inside the Holy Temple.

The Real Ark of the Covenant May Have Housed Pagan Gods

The holy ark was likely kept in Jerusalem for much less time than the Bible tells us. And it may have contained something other than the Ten Commandments

Screenshot of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Facebook post in August, 2017, about the discovery of an ancient coin, which turned out to be a 15-year-old toy, by a girl in the West Bank settlement of Halamish.

Fake History: Netanyahu Boasts About 'Ancient Jerusalem Coin' - Turns Out to Be Kids' Souvenir

Netanyahu uploaded (then deleted) to Facebook a photo of the object, describing how its discovery attested to long-time Jewish ties to the Holy Land

One of 15 items in a set which for more than 50 years was claimed to be evidence for the world’s earliest metal smelting event. It shows molten ‘outskirts’: shiny copper metal and silica-rich glass on the top, in contrast to the incompletely molten rest of the sample.

A Story of Metal and Fire Scientists Debunk Claim That Copper Smelting Was Invented 8,500 Years Ago in Turkey

'Slag' resulted from pretty green pigments burning accidentally with a body, not the earliest invention of metallurgy, says archaeometallurgical team.

A radiological image of the Cheongdo mummy. Liver mass (indicated by arrow) could be observed below the right sided diaphragm. Lv, liver.

400-year-old Korean Mummy Shows Why Eating Crab Sushi Is a Stupid Idea

The mummy was found with something scientists didn't expect

Cleaning the mosaic found in what seems to be a pilgrim's hotel in Jerusalem. The mosaic mentions both the Emperor Justinian and Abbot Constantine

Mosaic Floor of 1,500-year-old 'Boutique Hotel' Found in Jerusalem

Christian pilgrims flocked to 6th-century Jerusalem, especially to giant Nea Church built by Abbot Constantine during Emperor Justinian's religious reforms

The massebah found at Tel Burna: Picture shows an excavator on the left and a massebah, a standing stone that could have been placed there for ritual or memorial purposes, archaeologists postulate.

3,200-year-old Pagan Ritual Hall Found in Israel, Archaeologists Confirm

Rare masks, cultic tableware, a massebah and figurines bolster the theory of pagan worship at Tel Burna over three millennia ago, says excavator

The ancient Babylonians could predict solar eclipses.

How Ancient Babylonians Could Have Predicted the 2017 Eclipse

Though they believed the disappearing sun was a sign of divine wrath, Babylonians were already calculating the probability of eclipses 4,000 years ago

Witch, Purim costume: Person with thick mane of curly black hair wearing a witch whole-face mask, with black circles around the eyeholes, a painted nose and cheek contours and a broad red-[ainted grinning mouth.

Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live: A Murderous Mistranslation?

Not everybody agrees that the biblical reference in Exodus is to 'witches' as we understand them.

Tiled floor of a mikve in the Great Synagogue of Vilna

Great Synagogue of Vilna's Jewish Ritual Baths, Destroyed in Holocaust, Found by Archaeologists

The Nazis burned and looted the synagogue but it was the Russians who knocked it down as they set out to eradicate Jewish memories in Lithuania after WWII.

A sarcophagus in one of three tombs discovered at cemetery dating back about 2,000 years in the al-Kamin al-Sahrawi area in Minya province, south of Cairo.

Tombs Found in Egypt's Nile Valley Date Back More Than 2,000 Years

One tomb from Ptolemaic-era burial shaft carved into the bedrock, another a child's grave: This was not an army camp

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